Mediated Moms: Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1433131668 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Numerous scholars have addressed «bad mothers» in the media, arguing that these images are a necessary counterpoint that serves to buttress the «good mother» myth. Images of «good mothers» saturate the media, yet so too do images of mothers who do not fit this mold. While mediated images of women who fail to enact good motherhood may promote good mothering as an ideal, the essays in Mediated Moms: Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth, suggest that this is not all that is occurring in contemporary portrayals of maternity. The authors in this volume explore how images of mothers have expanded beyond the good/bad dichotomy, simultaneously and sometimes paradoxically serving to reinforce, fracture, and/or transcend the ideology of good motherhood.
Five Stars I love all the different perspectives from all the writers. Each chapter is written wonderfully!
. Sara E. Hundley (PhD, University of Utah) is Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, San Bernardino. Her research has appeared in The Quarterly Journal of Speech and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, among other journals. She is co-editor of Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction (2010). Her research has appeared in Communication Report
The contributors to this book demonstrate that motherhood is neither inimical nor antithetical to possibilities for transgression. Rather, motherhood as an ideological construction is a multidimensional, paradoxical site of contestation and struggle. -The essays in this volume enrich and elucidate the complexities and contradictory tensions of motherhood, and the representations of it in this contemporary moment. Hundley and Sara E. Thus, this book is a must-read for any scholar interested in learning how and why we should all appreciate the important roles 'bad' mothers play in the always-evolving institution of motherhood.- (D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Boston University)" . Contributors to this book demonstrate that cautious optimism